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📚 What Was...? Series in Order

Complete What Was...? Reading Order by Deborah Hopkinson • 65 Books

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Books in the What Was...? Series

1

What Was the Hindenburg? (By: Kevin McVeigh,David Groff,Janet B. Pascal) (2013)

2

What Was the Battle of Gettysburg? (By: John Mantha,Jim O'Connor,James Bennett) (2013)

3

What Was the Gold Rush? (By: Joan Holub,Tim Tomkinson) (2013)

4

What Was the March on Washington? (By: Tim Tomkinson,Kathleen Krull) (2013)

5

What Was the Boston Tea Party? (By: Lauren Mortimer,Kathleen Krull) (2013)

6

What Was Pearl Harbor? (By: John Mantha,Patricia Brennan Demuth) (2013)

7

What Was the Alamo? (By: Meg Belviso,David Groff,Pam Pollack) (2013)

8

What Was the Underground Railroad? (By: Yona Zeldis McDonough,Lauren Mortimer) (2013)

9

What Was Pompeii? (By: John Hinderliter,Jim O'Connor,Who Hq) (2014)

10

What Was Ellis Island? (By: David Groff,Patricia Brennan Demuth) (2014)

11

What Is the Statue of Liberty? (By: John Hinderliter,Joan Holub) (2014)

12

What Is the Panama Canal? (By: Tim Foley,Janet B. Pascal) (2014)

13

What Was the Lewis and Clark Expedition? (By: Megan Stine,Tim Foley) (2014)

14

What Was D-Day? (By: Patricia Brennan Demuth,David Grayson Kenyon) (2015)

15

What Is the World Series? (By: Gail Herman,Scott Anderson) (2015)

16

What Was Hurricane Katrina? (By: John Hinderliter,Robin Koontz) (2015)

17

What Were the Salem Witch Trials? (By: Dede Putra,Joan Holub) (2015)

18

What Is the Super Bowl? (By: David Groff,Dina Anastasio) (2015)

19

What Was the Great Depression? (By: Dede Putra,Janet B. Pascal) (2015)

20

What Was Woodstock? (By: Joan Holub) (2016)

21

What Are the Summer Olympics? (By: Gail Herman) (2016)

22

What Is the Declaration of Independence? (By: Jerry Hoare,Michael C. Harris) (2016)

23

What Were the Twin Towers? (By: Ted Hammond,Jim O'Connor) (2016)

24

What Was the Great Chicago Fire? (By: Janet B. Pascal) (2016)

25

What Was the San Francisco Earthquake? (By: Ted Hammond,Dorothy Hoobler,Thomas Hoobler) (2016)

26

What Was the Age of the Dinosaurs? (By: Megan Stine,Gregory Copeland) (2017)

27

What Was the Wild West? (By: Stephen Marchesi,Janet B. Pascal) (2017)

28

What Is Rock and Roll? (By: Gregory Copeland,Jim O'Connor) (2017)

29

What Was the Ice Age? (By: Nico Medina,David Groff) (2017)

30

What Are the Ten Commandments? (By: Tim Foley,Yona Zeldis McDonough) (2017)

31

What Is the World Cup? (By: Stephen Marchesi,Bonnie Bader) (2018)

32

What Was the Titanic? (By: Gregory Copeland,Stephanie Sabol) (2018)

33

What Was the Holocaust? (By: Jerry Hoare,Gail Herman) (2018)

34

What Is Climate Change? (By: John Hinderliter,Gail Herman) (2018)

35

What Is the Constitution? (By: Tim Foley,Patricia Brennan Demuth) (2018)

36

What Is the Women's Rights Movement? (With: Laurie Conley) (2018)

37

What Were the Roaring Twenties? (By: Jake Murray,Michele Mortlock) (2018)

38

What Is the Stanley Cup? (By: Gregory Copeland,Gail Herman) (2019)

39

What Was Stonewall? (By: Nico Medina,Jake Murray) (2019)

40

What Is NASA? (By: Ted Hammond,Sarah Fabiny) (2019)

41

What Was the Vietnam War? (By: Tim Foley,Jim O'Connor) (2019)

42

What Was the Berlin Wall? (By: Nico Medina,Stephen Marchesi) (2019)

43

What Were the Negro Leagues? (By: Stephen Marchesi,Varian Johnson) (2019)

44

What Are the Paralympic Games? (By: Andrew Thomson,Gail Herman) (2020)

45

What Was the Bombing of Hiroshima? (By: Tim Foley,Jess Brallier) (2020)

46

What Is LEGO? (By: Ted Hammond,Jim O'Connor,Who Hq) (2020)

47

What Is a Presidential Election? (By: Douglas Yacka) (2020)

48

What Is the Civil Rights Movement? (By: Tim Foley,Sherri L. Smith) (2020)

49

What Is Nintendo? (By: Andrew Thomson,Gina Shaw) (2021)

50

What Was the Age of Exploration? (By: Jake Murray,Catherine Daly) (2021)

51

What Is Congress? (By: David Malan,Jill Abramson) (2021)

52

What Is Black Lives Matter? (By: Lakita Wilson) (2021)

53

What Are the Winter Olympics? (By: Jake Murray,Gail Herman) (2021)

54

What Was the Plague? (By: Dede Putra,Roberta Edwards,Who Hq) (2021)

55

What Was the Harlem Renaissance? (By: Tim Foley,Sherri L. Smith) (2021)

56

What Are Castles and Knights? (By: Dede Putra,Sarah Fabiny) (2022)

57

What Is Juneteenth? (By: Kirsti Jewel) (2022)

58

What Is the AIDS Crisis? (By: Tim Foley,Nico Medina) (2022)

59

What Is the Supreme Court? (By: Gregory Copeland,Jill Abramson,Who Hq) (2022)

60

What Was Reconstruction? (By: Tim Foley,Sherri L. Smith) (2022)

61

What Is the Women's World Cup? (By: Ted Hammond,Gina Shaw) (2023)

62

What Was the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921? (By: Tim Foley,Caleb Gayle) (2023)

63

What Was World War I? (By: Nico Medina,Dede Putra) (2023)

64

What Was the Donner Party? (By: Ben Hubbard,Tim Foley) (2023)

65

What Was the Children's Blizzard of 1888? (By: Dede Putra,Steve Korté) (2023)

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What Was...? Series in Order - All 65 Books by Deborah Hopkinson